debian man page for compression_overview

compression_overview(3) 					       Coin						   compression_overview(3)

NAME
       compression_overview - File compression Coin can support reading and writing Inventor and VRML files compressed with either gzip or bzip2
       (as of yet - more formats may come in the future). This functionality is of course only enabled when Coin can link with the corresponding
       compression libraries.

       Reading of compressed files happens in a transparent manner - there is nothing the developer has to do to support this.

       Writing of compressed files is controlled through the SoOutput::setCompression method.

       The list of available compression methods can be fetched with the SoOutput::getAvailableCompressionMethods method.

       You can not use file compression together with I/O to memory buffers, except for reading from memory buffers containing gzip-compressed
       files.

       For backwards compatibility with Coin 2.0 and Coin 1.0, compressed files must not be used. Compressed files works only from Coin 2.1 and
       upwards.

       Since:
	   Coin 2.1

       See also:
	   SoOutput::setCompression, SoOutput::getAvailableCompressionMethods

Version 3.1.3							  Wed May 23 2012					   compression_overview(3)